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HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Situated messages for asynchronous human-robot interaction
An ongoing issue in human robot interaction (HRI) is how people and robots communicate with one another. While there is considerable work in real-time human-robot communication, f...
Nicolai Marquardt, James Everett Young, Ehud Sharl...
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
How anthropomorphism affects empathy toward robots
A long-standing question within the robotics community is about the degree of human-likeness robots ought to have when interacting with humans. We explore an unexamined aspect of ...
Laurel D. Riek, Tal-Chen Rabinowitch, Bhismadev Ch...
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
How search and its subtasks scale in N robots
The present study investigates the effect of the number of controlled robots on performance of an urban search and rescue (USAR) task using a realistic simulation. Participants co...
Huadong Wang, Michael Lewis, Prasanna Velagapudi, ...
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The snackbot: documenting the design of a robot for long-term human-robot interaction
We present the design of the Snackbot, a robot that will deliver snacks in our university buildings. The robot is intended to provide a useful, continuing service and to serve as ...
Min Kyung Lee, Jodi Forlizzi, Paul E. Rybski, Fred...
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
An affective guide robot in a shopping mall
To explore possible robot tasks in daily life, we developed a guide robot for a shopping mall and conducted a field trial with it. The robot was designed to interact naturally wit...
Takayuki Kanda, Masahiro Shiomi, Zenta Miyashita, ...
HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Cooperative gestures: effective signaling for humanoid robots
Abstract—Cooperative gestures are a key aspect of humanhuman pro-social interaction. Thus, it is reasonable to expect that endowing humanoid robots with the ability to use such g...
Laurel D. Riek, Tal-Chen Rabinowitch, Paul Bremner...